Pin-fastener for tags and other articles.



J. ABHAHAMS.

PIN FASTENER FOR TAGS AND OTHER ARTICLES. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 2.19:6.

Pmmd 10%.. 12,1916.

JULIUS ABRAHAIVIS, 0F PHELADIELJPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

PIN-FASTENER FOR TAGS AND OTHER ARTICLES.

memmmm Specification of Letters Patent.

Patentetil Dec. 12, third.

Application filed June 2, 1916. Serial No. 101,229.

To all whom e't may concern.

Be it known that T, Jones AnnAHAMs, a citizen of the United States,residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphiaand State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inPin-Fasteners for Tags and other Articles, of which the following is aspecification.

The object of my invention is to provide a combined tag and button ofnovel, simple and efficient construction having provision whereby thecombined device may be either pinned to a garment, or the like, as a button, or suspended on or attached to a strap, or the like, as e tag.

A further object of my invention is to construct the device so that thepinning means and the suspending means may be both formed of a singlepiece of material; and a further object of my invention is to provide anovel and advantageous means for securing the pinning and suspendingmeans to the body of the device, and to provide a novel device in whichother advantages, hereinafter appearing, are atteined.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combinations ofparts hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating my invention: Figure 1 is afront View of my improved combined tag and button, enlarged. Fig. 2 is aside View thereof. Fig. 3 is a back View thereof. Fig. l is a section,on line ll of Fig. 3. Fig 5 is a back view of the device showing the suspending loop bent down into the inoperative position.

Referring to the drawings, designates the body portion of a, buttonortag; and, in the resent embodiment of my invention, this b()( yportion 2 is formed of sheet metal and has an inturned flange 3 whichextends around the same and incloses and retains .thereon a suitableface member 5 and a transparent covering 6 therefor.

The pinning and suspending means is arranged adjacent to the back of thebody portion 2 and it comprises a suspendingloop '2" and a retaining pin8 formed of a single piece of wire which is held firmly in place on theupper portion of the back of the body portion 2 by two projections 9which are preferably in the form of tongues struck from the metalforming the body portion 2 and bent to embrace and firmly clamp parts ofsaid wire. The pin 8 extends downwardly from the projections 9 and itslower pointed end rests normally under a protect ing tongue or guard 10which is also preferably struclr from the metal forming the body portion2. The pointed end of the pin {3 may be sirung out from the guard whenit 1s desired to pin the device to e garment; and, after the device hasbeen pinned to a garment, the pointed end of the pin 8 may be sprungback under the guard 10.

The wire forming the pin 8 and loop '1' is bent at the upper end of thepin to form a shoulder 11 which engages tile bottom of one of theprojections 9. The wire is then bent to extend upwardly through one ofthe projections 9; and then it is bent to form the loop 7 and the twoboulders 12 which engage the top of the projections 9. The wire thenextends down through one of the projections 9 and is bent to form ashoulder 13 which engages the bottom of cne'of the projections, asclearly shown in the drawings. The wire is first bent to form the pin 8,loop 7 and shoulders 11, 12 and 13, and it is then f rmly secured to thebody portion 2 by bending the tongues firmly around the portions of thewire between the shoulders 12 and the shoulders 11 and 18. The shoulders11 and 13, engaging the bottom of the loops or projections 9, preventupward'displacement of the pin 8' and loop 7, and the shoulders 12,engaging the bottom of the loops or projections 9, prevent down; warddisplacement of the pin 8 and loop 7.

The loop extends above the top of the body portion 2 and thus serves thedouble purpose of a suspending loop end a convenient handle for the pin8. By grasping the loop or handle I, the pin 8 may be quickly and easilyinserted. into a garment; and by extending :1. suitable strap or thelike through the loop 7, the device may be sus-' pended thereby as atag.

If it is desired not to have the loop 7 appear above the top of the bodyportion 2, the loop '7 may be bent by hand down from the position shownin Fig. to the position shown in F and when this is done the loop 7surrounds the tongues or projections 9 and lies close to the top of thepin 8 and the back of the body portion 2.

1 claim:

1. In a device of the character described, a body portion having asecuring tongue, and a part formed of a single piece of wire andembraced by said tongue and secured thereby to the body portion andcomprising a retaining pin extending downwardly from said tongue and aloop extending upwardly from said tongue to a position over said tongueand being adapted to be bent down to embrace said tongue.

2. In a device of the character described, a body portion having asecuring tongue struck from the body thereof, and a part formed of asingle piece of Wire and embraced by said tongue and secured thereby tothe body portion and comprising a. retaining pin extending downwardlyfrom said tongue and. a loop extending upwardly from said tongue, saidpart having a sheul' der formed thereon engaging said tongue andpreventing downward displacement of sad part, and said part having ashoulder formed thereon engaging said tongue and prm'enting upwarddisplacement of said part.

3. In a device of the character described, a body por ion havingsecuring projections on the back thereof, and a single piece of wirehaving its lower portion forming a retaining pin and extending from saidpin to form a shoulder engaging the bottom of one of said projections,then extending upwardly through one of said projections, then extendingabove said projections and forming a loop and shoulders engaging the topof said projections, and then extending down through one of saidprojections and forming a shoulder engaging the last named projection.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature hereto.

JULIUS ABRAHAMS.

